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Writer identification approach by holistic graphometric features using off-line handwritten words

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The biometric identification is an important topic with applications in different fields. Among the different modalities, based-handwriting biometric is a very useful and extended modality, and the most known one is the signature. The use of handwritten texts is researched presenting a biometric system for identifying writers from their handwritten words. A set of feature-based graphometric information has been extracted from off-line handwritten words to implement an automatic biometric approach. Given the handwritten nature of the information and its great variability, a feature selection based on principal component analysis and neural network classifier has been proposed. A fusion block based on neural networks has been added in order to reduce the effect of the data variability due to an increase and stabilization of the accuracy. A dataset composed of 100 writers have been used for the experiments. A holdout cross-validation was applied and the accuracy reached between 99.80% and 100%.

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This work has been supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (TEC2016-77791-C4-234 1-R). In addition, authors would like to sincerely thank all the reviewers for their valuable comments, which have helped us to improve the quality of the paper.

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Vásquez, J.L., Ravelo-García, A.G., Alonso, J.B. et al. Writer identification approach by holistic graphometric features using off-line handwritten words. Neural Comput & Applic 32, 15733–15746 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3461-x

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